General knowledge crossword

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5 Which Greek god’s picture appeared in the front of early map books? (5) 8 What is the study and measurement of time? (8) 9 Where was Mohammed born? (5) 10 Which metal has the highest melting point? (8) 11 Gozo and Comino are islands of which small country? (5) 14 In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania falls in love with a man with a head of a what? (3) 16/17 The names of the grandfathers of which US president were represented in his single letter middle “name”? (5,1,6) 18 A strand of yarn or rope (3) 20 Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon are the members of which group of gases? (5) 24 American Ty Cobb found fame playing what game? (8) 25 Which US greengrocer (Henry John __) began his empire by selling bottled vegetables in 1869? (5) 26 Who is the murderous villain in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer? (5,3) 27 What name for a soldier from Australia or New Zealand originated during WWI? (5)

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1 What word can precede feather, elephant and wedding? (5) 2 What is an identifying mark burnt on livestock? (5) 3 What product do you associate with the Pilkington brothers who made it from 1826? (5) 4 What are the plastic tubes on the ends of shoelaces? (6) 6 Where is the seat of the International Court of Justice? (3,5) 7 In 1969, a group of Sioux occupied which island near San Francisco in an ownership claim? (8) 12 Who was famously defeated at Waterloo? (8) 13 Tea accounts for about one quarter of which country’s export earnings? (3,5) 14 Another name for the Egyptian cobra (3) 15 An enclosure for pigs (3) 19 What word is an anagram of antler and rental? (6) 21 Which is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise? (5) 22 What musical instrument does Billy Connolly play? (5) 23 Somnus was a Roman god of what? (5)